Woolcock Research Award
Dr Woolcock
The Awardee will deliver the Woolcock Memorial Lecture on a topic of their choice. This is one of the most important plenary sessions at the APSR Congress.
The Lecture is in memory of the late Dr Ann Janet Woolcock, who died 17 February 2001, shortly after gallantly serving as APSR president since 1998. She was a founding member of the initial Steering Committee for the APSR and despite suffering illness for many years, she dedicated herself in promoting the fast-growing APSR on the international stage.
Nominations for the honour of delivering the Lecture can be made by any member of the APSR and nominees can be any member of the APSR whose work enshrines excellence in respiratory research.
Nominations will be considered by the APSR Nomination Committee.
- Travel grant 1
- Three nights' accommodation at a Congress-designated hotel
- Complimentary Congress registration
- Invitation to the Gala Dinner (or similar social event) at the Congress
- Commemorative plaque
- The awardee may also be introduced on the APSR website, Bulletin and social media.
- The awardee must be an APSR member
- Nominations should include CV and lecture topic
- Deadline: Nominations must be received by the APSR Secretariat congress@theapsr.org by 15 February 2024
| 2003 | Dr Guy Marks | "A Public Health Approach to Controlling Asthma and COPD" |
| 2004 | Dr Peter Gibson | "The Importance of Inflammatory Phenotypes in Asthma" |
| 2005 | Dr Cheryl Salome | "Obesity and Asthma – Is There Evidence for a Causal Association?" |
| 2006 | Dr Alan James University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada | "Airway Hyperresponsiveness – Have We Answered Dr Woolcock's Question?" |
| 2007 | Dr Peter Sly Queensland Children's Medical Research Institute, University of Queensland, Australia | "To Wheeze or Not To Wheeze: What Are the Mechanisms?" |
| 2008 | Dr David Hui | "Are We Prepared for the Next Influenza Pandemic? Some Lessons from the SARS Epidemic" |
| 2009 | Dr Judith Lee Black University of Sydney, Australia | "What Can In Vitro Studies Tell Us About Chronic Airways Disease?" |
| 2010 | Dr Richard Beasley Medical Research Institute of New Zealand, New Zealand | "Oxygen – a new look at an old therapy" |
| 2011 | Dr Dong Soon Kim | "Acute Exacerbation of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis" |
| 2012 | Dr Christine Jenkins | "Clinical trial design in COPD : controversies and consequences" |
| 2013 | Dr Shu Hashimoto Nihon University School of Medicine, Japan | "Epithelial cell in asthma pathogenesis" |
| 2014 | Dr Greg King | "Why Physiologic Investigation in Asthma is More Relevant Now Than Ever" |
| 2015 | Dr Ian Yang | "Translating advances in research to improved health outcomes for patients with respiratory disease" |
| 2016 | Dr Makoto Hoshino Japan | "Asthma – Lessons learned from pathophysiology to imaging studies" |
| 2017 | Dr Alan James Australia | "Airway hyperresponsiveness – does it take two to tango?" |
| 2018 | Dr Sandra D Anderson Australia | "Tests for identifying bronchial hyperresponsiveness" |
| 2019 | Dr Vanessa M McDonald Priority Research Centre for Healthy Lungs, The University of Newcastle, Australia | "Individualised Management for Asthma – How far have we come?" |
| 2021 | Dr David CL Lam Hong Kong | "Biomarkers for Lung Cancer in the Asia-Pacific region" |
| 2022 | Dr Anne Chang Australia | "Why improve the management of chronic cough in children through clinical care and research?" |
| 2023 | Prof. Paul Reynolds Australia | "Macrolides and Airways Disease – Bench to Bedside" |
